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Charlie Hebert
Regional Spill Response Coordinator
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Charlie is the Region 1 Spill Response Coordinator in Portland, Oregon, where he has worked since 2000. His primary role is to assist U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service field personnel in responding to oil spills in the Pacific Region. Additionally he provides assistance with response technologies and area contingency planning for RRT10. When he is not busy on spill response issues, Charlie works on natural resource damage assessment issues for oil spills.

Charlie began working for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1979, conducting waterfowl research with the Migratory Bird Management Office. He moved up  to Refuges in 1981 and has since worked at 5 field stations, comprised of 22 National Wildlife Refuges across the United States. Charlie began working with oil spills in Louisiana in 1984 at Delta National Wildlife Refuge where spills were a frequent occurrence. Prior to moving to Portland, Charlie was the Refuge Manager of the Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex and served as the Field Response Coordinator for oil spills in southern New England.

Charlie graduated from Louisiana State University with a B.S. in Forestry and an M.S. in Wildlife Management. Charlie is an avid fly fisherman and loves building fly rods and tying flies between oil spills

Chair: 09 CP Session 1E: Wildlife Response Planning

Speaker: 09 CP Session 3E: Looking Forward